Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-HRC-DA-145-1

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Segment 1

VLADIMIR
(Contd.)

[2240] go on living.

ESTRAGON

[2243] Ten of them [place = supralinear] I WASN'T DOING anything.

VLADIMIR

[2244] You must be content [place = supralinear] HAPPY too, deep down, if you only
knew it.

ESTRAGON

[2245] Content [place = supralinear] HAPPY about what?

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Segment 2

VLADIMIR

[2246] To be back with me again.

ESTRAGON

[2247] Would you say so?

VLADIMIR

[2248] Say you are, even if it's not true.

ESTRAGON

[2249] What am I to say?

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Segment 3

VLADIMIR

[2250] Say, I am content [place = supralinear] HAPPY.

ESTRAGON

[2251] I am content [place = supralinear] HAPPY.

VLADIMIR

[2252] So am I.

ESTRAGON

[2253] So am I.

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Segment 4

VLADIMIR

[2254] We are content [place = supralinear] HAPPY.

ESTRAGON

[2255] We are content [place = supralinear] HAPPY. [2256] (silence) [2257] What do we do now, now
that we're content [place = supralinear] HAPPY?

VLADIMIR

[2258] Wait for Godot.

[2259] (ESTRAGON groans. [2260] Silence)

[2261] Things have changed here since yesterday.

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Segment 5

ESTRAGON

[2262] And if he doesn't come.

VLADIMIR

[place = supralinear] X up to tree [2263] (After a moment's incomprehension) [2264] We'll see when
the time comes. [2265] (pause) [2266] I was saying that things
have changed here since yesterday.

ESTRAGON

[2267] Everything oozes.

VLADIMIR

[2268] Look at the tree.

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Segment 6

ESTRAGON

[2269] It's never the same pus from one second to the next.

VLADIMIR

[2270] The tree, look at the tree.

[2271] (ESTRAGON looks at the tree)

ESTRAGON

[2272] Was it not there yesterday?

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En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt